Do you wash your pre washed lettuce with the vinegar again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if you wash the spring mix/ spinach which already washed 3 times and packed already?
I have to wash it with the “organic” apple cider, rinse and dry before making the salad every time when my “super clean” SIL comes to visit. I don’t mind and I do it.
I’m not a sloppy person either. I can even assure that my bathroom is super clean compared to her own kitchen.
During TG week, she asked if it’s washed and had to respond: if she doesn’t trust, she can do it her way. So sick of it already. Each time or each TG is the same BS.
There are other more small things that gets to me. I don’t want to disclose in case she reads this forum.

Most bagged lettuces are not washed. But I've never heard of vinegar.

[Anonymous]

No, TikTok is not my source for food-related ideas.

[Anonymous]

I rinse with water only.

[Anonymous]

I honestly don’t know how some people get through life. I am positively carefree compared to some of you! (And have never become sick from lettuce not washed in vinegar).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly don’t know how some people get through life. I am positively carefree compared to some of you! (And have never become sick from lettuce not washed in vinegar).

My favorite part of the post is that OP actually does wash produce in vinegar, so the argument is about the TYPE of vinegar to use in addition to whether prewashed is good enough.

[Anonymous]

I buy the premade romaine mix from Wegmans weekly and do not wash it at all. I have never had any problems. That being said, I use a ton of vinegar on my salads, so perhaps it's just enough to kill anything before I get sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy the premade romaine mix from Wegmans weekly and do not wash it at all. I have never had any problems. That being said, I use a ton of vinegar on my salads, so perhaps it's just enough to kill anything before I get sick.

You should always wash your lettuce. There are videos of lettuce being dug up from the earth and bagged right in the field. https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/nak2mu/no_matter_what_the_pack_says_wash_the_veggies/

[Anonymous]

60 years old and have been buying bagged lettuce and clamshells of lettuce for decades. Have never washed it, rinsed it, or anything but dumped it in a bowl and eaten it. Haven't gotten sick from it either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I wash the fruits and iceberg/Romain lettuce with the white vinegar. Per SIL, white vinegar doesn’t count. It has to be organic apple. The spinach / spring mix has to be soaked in the vinegar water. Even though it’s pre washed. I just don’t get it. Why does it need to be soaked?

Sounds like she has anxiety. Just let her do it her way if it bothers her that much.

No. Do not enable her compulsions.

[Anonymous]

Who washes the salad greens and why? I never do. It only adds water, which makes it slimy, and they already come washed so many times!

Tell SIL she can bring her own salad.

[Anonymous]

I don’t wash triple washed greens. I rinse whole iceberg, green lettuce, and Romain lettuce with only water and spin it dry.

But if your sister-in-law keeps bothering you about how well you’ve washed greens when she comes over I would tell her that she always asks the same question and the answers the same. I would stop engaging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who washes the salad greens and why? I never do. It only adds water, which makes it slimy, and they already come washed so many times!

Tell SIL she can bring her own salad.

Agree. I don’t re-wash the triple washed bagged greens. Sounds like OCD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t wash triple washed greens. I rinse whole iceberg, green lettuce, and Romain lettuce with only water and spin it dry.

But if your sister-in-law keeps bothering you about how well you’ve washed greens when she comes over I would tell her that she always asks the same question and the answers the same. I would stop engaging.

Same.

[Anonymous]

OP here.
Not only for greens, even meat has to be washed with vinegar before cooking. She is crazzyy. Next time she comes to visit, I’m just going away for a week.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of washing lettuce in vinegar.